Sergeant Phrases

Phrases

• All present and correct
• An army marches on its stomach
• An army of one (United States Army advertising slogan)
• Army Dreamers (Kate Bush song)
• Army strawberries (military slang term for prunes)
• Ballad of the Green Berets (Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler song)
• Barmy army
• Be all that you can be (United States Army advertising slogan)
• Be all you can be (US Army advertising slogan)
• Be the best (British Army advertising slogan)
• Charge of the Light Brigade (British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a poem by Tennyson)
• Chinese fire drill
• Dad's Army (BBC comedy television series)
• Don't panic (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)
• Drill down
• Drill, baby, drill
• Drummed out of the army
• Earn your stripes
• Field Marshall (the highest rank in the British Army)
• First among equals (the most senior person in a group of equal rank)
• Go for a soldier (Enlist in the army)
• Heart to God, hand to man (The Salvation Army advertising slogan)
• I want YOU for the US Army (World War I and World War II advertising slogan)
• In the Army, the edge (Australian Army advertising slogan)
• In uniform
• It was twenty years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play (Beatles song lyric)
• Join the professionals (British Army advertising slogan)
• Kerb drill
• Major league (A baseball expression meaning at the top rank)
• My Own Private Idaho (River Phoenix movie)
• Name, rank, and serial number
• Play the old soldier

• Private Dancer (Tina Turner album)
• Private hell
• Private life
• Private parts
• Pull rank
• Rank and file
• Rear admiral (naval rank)
• Red Army Fraction (German left wing terrorist group also call Red Army Faction)
• Send a salami to your boy in the army
• Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Beatles album and song)
• Shout at the top of one's lungs
• Shout it from the rooftops
• Shout the odds
• Soldier of fortune
• Soldier on
• Some of our best men are women (United States Army advertising slogan)
• Stars and stripes
• The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Army Game (BBC comedy television series)
• The Little Corporal (Nickname of Napoleon Bonaparte)
• The Sally Army (Nickname of the Salvation Army)
• The Tartan Army
• The army national guard, you can (US Army National Guard advertising slogan)
• The forgotten army
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (John Le Carre book)
• True to you (Julius Baer Private Bank advertising slogan)
• Twist And Shout (Beatles song)
• War baby (someone born during the war - especially the illegitimate child of a soldier)
• You and whose army?
• You know the drill
• You stupid boy! (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)
• You're in the army now